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South Lancashire burial and cremation records go online

All burial and cremation records for Blackburn with Darwen are now available online.

Deceased Online says: “All burial and cremation records for the large South Lancashire local authority area of Blackburn with Darwen have been added to Deceased Online. The new collection includes nearly 350,000 individual burial and cremation records comprising nearly one million data items including:

digital scans of original burial and cremation registers;

details of all interments in each grave;

maps indicating the cemetery section location for each grave.

“Blackburn and Darwen was a thriving industrial area, world-renowned for cotton and textile production as well as engineering, brewing, mining and other industries throughout the late 18th and 19th centuries.”